dairy

[magdalenapl]

Dears
when did you introduce dairy to your allergic LO ? Did you start with goat dairy f.ex. yogurt ? My DS is 14 months. He is on Puramino (amino based formula similar to Neocate).

[Buntybear]

Hi we introduced it when his skin prick test showed he wasn't allergic to it anymore. Then we went into the hospital and they gave him straight milk. He had no reaction so we went home with a  re-introduction plan to follow. It started with baked milk and worked it's way up to straight cow's milk.

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[magdalenapl]

We did him blood tests, but it does not show anything. He does not have allergy IgE related, but it is rather intollerance IgG related. The doctors and people here are often mixing those two things. So I should rather ask how and when introduce dairy to MSPI LO (sorry for that). Should I try to change the formula first from AA to ordinary Nutramigen ? Or just try some solids?

[Buntybear]

You could try slowly. Here the NHS advise (for a previously allergic child) to start with milk baked into biscuits etc - so hidden dairy.

I would hate to recommend going for anything more and then for him to have a nasty reaction 

[trimbler]

Mind if I join you? DD has found diary a bit constipating when we first tried, so we're trying to go slow with it now, having had a break. Cheese has always seemed to be ok so we kept that, lately doing cow's milk cooked in porridge which seems ok although I want to try it a bit longer before the next step, but what would that be? She's not allergic either, I think any intolerance probably due to an immature/irritated gut early on (bf oversupply/hindmilk/fore milk imbalance and possibly abx in labour?), she's been on probiotics for a couple of weeks which may also have helped. So after cooked milk - yoghurt??

[Buntybear]

Have look at this, it is the plan that we followed.

http://www.gwh.nhs.uk/media/151150/reintroduction_of_dairy_plan.pdf

[trimbler]

That's exactly what I wanted thanks! So if she's already getting porridge with cow's milk then is that stage 5? Or is 'heated' cow's milk not the same as cooked?

[Buntybear]

On the version I got from our hospital I am sure that stage 2 said cooked for at least 30 mins. I would think that porridge would come later in the trial as it is not cooked for so long. Maybe stage 3 along with custard? I am not on the difference between custard and just heated milk TBH. I think something does happen to milk if it is heated over a certain temp so maybe the heated milk is milk that is heated in the microwave and not boiled?

[trimbler]

Ah ok thanks! I don't think I'm that consistent with my porridge cooking, sometimes it may have boiled, other times not

[Buntybear]

It must get pretty hot to cook the oats? x

[trimbler]

Instant porridge probably, but in the microwave, sometimes I do it, sometimes DH, different amounts but always smaller than on the packet instructions, etc...